Posted on 04/21/2023 6:12:12 AM PDT by algore
A retired CIA leader coordinated a letter from former intelligence chiefs claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation because he wanted to help Joe Biden's presidential campaign.
Mike Morell told the House Judiciary Committee that he was asked by Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State - who at the time was a senior member of the Biden campaign - to help discredit the laptop reporting.
Morell was a former acting CIA director, serving for two months in 2011 and four months from 2012 to 2013. He retired from the CIA in September 2013.
The House Judiciary Committee, led by Jim Jordan, is currently investigating Hunter Biden's laptop, as well as the Biden family businesses.
Morell 'recently' conducted a transcribed interview with Jordan's team and was asked about the Biden campaign's response to the laptop
Morell said that he was asked by Blinken to rally former intelligence chiefs to agree that the laptop looked like a smear campaign.
He carried out 'a little bit of my own research,' and then reached out to retired CIA senior operations officer Marc Polymeropoulos for assistance in compiling the letter.
The letter was ultimately signed by 51 former intelligence officials, including himself and four other former CIA directors, including John Brennan and Leon Panetta.
The letter was published by Politico five days after The New York Post first reported on the contents of the laptop.
The headline for Politico's story, on October 19, 2020, was: 'Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former officials say.'
The letter alleged that The New York Post story 'has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.'
Several media outlets, including DailyMail.com, have since confirmed the contents of the laptop and that it belonged to Hunter Biden.
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This works because most voters are to dumb to know when they are lied to. We call these voters democrats.
Nothing that these Maoists do surprises me anymore.
I’dn’t this some of that there E’lection interference those news talker guys is always carryin’ on about?
Schumer told Trump the Intel community has 50 ways to Sunday to get you.
what is to be done when one’s own government becomes absolutely untrustworthy?
Yep. Not even evil necessarily; just totally lacking in any integrity. “Sure, I’ll sign anything to help old Joe.”
Playing the “Remove Biden” card?
He does spots on CBS as a big intel expert. In fact he's a bad cop low life scumbag. Like all the others.
The letter was infuriating enough, but how the press reported it was even more infuriating. They carefully wrote their letter with lots of weasel words to say it ‘has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.’ In other words, it APPEARS to be be a Russian op.
But Politico and other MSM instantly and unethically distorted that to say it IS a Russian info op.
The 51 who signed the letter and Blinken should swing.
JB, LP, and AB last.
Ironic, isn’t it? First they use this stratagem to get rid of Trump. Now they flip it to get rid of Biden.
Yes he does have a show. I listen sometimes
Let the democrats and their minions now try to spin and explain this away.
"Save our democracy!" Yeah, that is what they want! Lol
The Kenyan’s “seventeen ‘intelligence’ communities that threw a tantrum when President Trump won back in 2016 and used Clintoons loss as a dumbass excuse to overthrow the Trump administration. Let’s Go Brandon! FJB and Barry Soetoro/O’Bama/Barack. aka, the Kenyan.
What “rigged” means in American elections.
They also didn’t report the FBI DOJ DNI and others didn’t believe it was Russian disinformation.
Just another instance of the rampant lying that goes on in the “intelligence community” which has caused immeasurable damage to this country and its people. The same careless attitude, the same scumbos, got us involved in the needless war in Iraq that resulted in thousands of US servicemen and women killed, tens of thousands maimed and suicides, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the destruction of the Christian community of Iraq, and the reorientation of that country’s strategic alliance to Iran. And these criminal efforts are bipartisan in scope, just ask Bush and Cheney.
Great point!
The democRATS play for keeps, while Republicans play tiddly winks.
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